Only about 1 in 5 women agree to treatment for bladder control: Local study
Older women in Singapore may be suffering in silence with bladder control issues. More than half screened in a local study were found to be incontinent. When offered treatment, only one in five took it up. Dr Ong Ai Li, family physician at Kallang Polyclinic and adviser on women's health at NHG Polyclinics, discusses women incontinence. She talks about the common causes and misconceptions and how it is different from male incontinence.
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